Deep Under Cover

Yesterday in Rescue_Dawn's Recruiting Map diary, someone commented that they hoped we wouldn't get to the point of having an interactive Google map for our recruiting... We just did.

I read the comment and thought it was a cool idea, so I got to work. Being fresh out of school and not really having much of a life outside of work, I had the spare time. I came up with a rough draft for the map yesterday, and today I have made some major updates to make the map a more powerful tool for tracking recruiting. Features for the map originally included:

Interactive Google map with interest points at each recruit's location

I have revamped it to now be a community-supported tool. New features include:

A list of links to recruits to help easier locate one particular recruit on the map

Updated geocoding caches... Hopefully will make markers more accurate

The ability for anyone to propose updates to existing recruit

The ability for anyone to propose new recruits

Email confirmation of approved changes or disapproved changes with reasoning

List of recent contributors

New additional info field for linking to articles, highlight videos, other info, etc.

Any changes proposed will be moderated by me. I will not be verifying the data in the proposed changes, per se, this is just really to avoid system abuse.

What I need from people here is to look at the map and test it out. There are a lot of aesthetic things that need to be changed (I got numerous ideas yesterday, thanks to everyone!), but I chose to focus more on functionality, and even then I am sure there is plenty out there that could still break (there is a lot of data-validation that needs to be done eventually). If you have any ideas that would make this more user friendly, or if you notice something break, let me know and I will get to fixing it!

I think with everyone's help it could turn into a pretty neat community recruiting tool.